Captain Beefheart - Low Yo Yo Stuff

[@public.public]

What most people new to Captain Beefheart might not understand or see is that when he and the band played their music live they played it all note for note. I had the good luck to witness this with the Doc At The Radar Station tour. THAT many members in the band playing as tight as a three piece. Amazing stuff. A good memory to take away.

[@jeff8888]

It was the same on his UK tours. Fabulous memories.

[@jlfvrs]

that’s REALLY impressive, there’s so much going on..

[@robjohnson4156]

I’m going on 69 and I’ve been listening to and loving the music of Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) since I was 15. The most unique, creative, innovative and artistic songwriter and performer since time memorial.Rest in peace you genius of God’s creation!

[@1sortedman]

THE greatest album ever recorded! I bought 5 copies gave out four copies , and changed my friends lives forever ,three later became musicians, the fourth was already in the music industry.

[@BostonHollyAndSnoop]

I changed an entire group of friends lives forever when I brought this to BU. I'd been hitchhiking from Boston to S.Jersey and visited some friends in Philly when we all dropped acid and this album was put on. I was mesmerized from 1972 until now 2022. My best friend (RIP 2013, MM) and I used to speak in lyrics - almost 99 % Beefheart. A few years back, 2018?, my dog SnoopDogg, and I met a sweet guy in a local hot dog joint. We traded email Addy and I couldn’t believe my eyes, his "handle" was BeefheartFan. We've been friends ever since.

[@BostonHollyAndSnoop]

great post. I've done the same thing

[@jimjohnrayrobby2913]

This album has the sickest beats and his harmonica blows away anything I've heard from little Walter and Paul Butterfield Brian Jones. So glad to discover this amazing talented band.

[@cpdaddy7]

The band was so good on this album. Two intertwining guitars, fluid bass, Art on drums and some extra marimba in there too. Right up there with Safe as Milk as the best combo of weird and slick Beefheart.

[@JHelak]

Beefheart's best album for the masses. The music is approachable by everyone and it doesn't ask you to like the stuff on "Trout Mask". He pulled off a real coup recording this album. Great vocals, rhythms, and a lead guitar that doesn't get in the way. Fantastic stuff

[@andragg]

What a great album this is. I love all of Beefheart's albums from Stickley Personal to this one. Art Tripp's precise, tight drums and Roy Estrada's full, low bass add a lot to this album just as they did with The Mothers.

[@flo15jo]

It makes me happy to read all these comments, and realise that there are people out there who know that the good Captain was perfectly serious, and that his music is strict tempo and arranged ........ you just need to discard some preconceptions and get on the wavelength .....

[@johnstallings4049]

Which ones? 😶

[@aymericlemartelot978]

Capitain beefheart is one a the few genius of these passed 50 years , and the only in popular music if we should choose just one 😊

[@johnstallings4049]

I think I'm on it now suddenly, determinedly. ❄🎶💗🌎💗❄🎶

[@HughMorristheJoker]

He and Zappa were the mavericks

[@jmitch623]

I’m 73 and yes this is still cool.

[@richardwohl2629]

me too!

[@stevesomerdin9928]

Tis

[@dmlevitt]

we have a record store here in athens, ga named "low yo yo stuff". love this song and LP.

[@Dexter649]

I love that store!!!

[@sonofren]

I always loved this album because it was, yes, more accessible then some of their previous stuff, but it still is funky and weird enough to the point it isn't an absolute 180 from the early avant garde albums either. What made Beefheart so great in the first place hadn't been lost, at least not yet

[@wkbaker3rd]

remarkable work.--- a creative force to be reckoned with ....still holds up after 50 years. Not too many recording artists can match that..

[@williammedford5891]

My favorite Beefheart album. My favorite album, period! This is one of the best six songs on the album. Never tired of hearing this stuff.

[@1oolabob]

I came here frantically searching for this, afraid that something this great must have disappeared from the world. (listening, breathing to the beat, going to be okay)

[@suginami123]

The most magical rhythm in music history.

[@davidadams2478]

I saw the Captain and the Magic band open for Jethro Tull in the 70s...Raleigh NC..brilliant!

[@pariaheep]

I truly envy you!

[@vargaso]

One of the greatest albums ever.

[@paulrichards6826]

Not the best album ever recorded, but definitely in the top 1. My all-time favorite desert island disc.

[@squeakeththewheel]

Good 1.

[@manandhispoohbear9994]

Brilliant!

[@HughMorristheJoker]

This is about 1000 years ahead of everything

[@danb8603]

Tom Waits said "They will be teaching Beefheart's music in universities 1000 years from now"

[@HughMorristheJoker]

@@danb8603 let's hope so

[@michaelmorphites6733]

Dan B: Wow! Mind blown! And true!

[@coleozaeta6344]

Look up “Ohmnivalent” by the band Anomalous.

[@meehan36]

Show me another drummer that uses rolls like this in music like this. Amazing.

[@williamhiggins842]

Great jammy from the Captain and the band.Jeebus it's been so long since I've heard this, Thanks for posting!

[@nickfanzo]

zoot horn rollo makes this so good.

[@dannydine5263]

Bill is certainly one of my favorite guitarists.

[@mamacharilondon8614]

hit that long mean note....and let it float...

[@MagickMrCrowley]

Zoot Horn Rollo! Play that long lunar note.. and let it float.

[@thomnull9759]

Bill sent me his autograph on a piece of paper between two pieces of cardboard. It has my name, and under it, the words "Let it float!" What a great artist, an inspiration forever.

[@musads]

LOVE, love, love me some Beefheart!!!

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Damn radio screwed over my early rock 'n roll years. Because of the lack of play of the Beef and Zappa, I am only now truly enjoying their genius. But better late than never. Beef is high in listening protein. Yum.

[@franksmith7071]

+Frankincensed The Residents were also unjustly ignored by the mainstream .

[@johnstallings4049]

@@franksmith7071 🐍 Snakefinger

I first heard Beefheart around 1982 (Safe as Milk) and I hadn't really thought about "favourite albums" or anything until now, and I can honestly say this is probably the finest Album of Blues/Rock ever to come from your side of the pond. There are other Albums, other Artists that I love just as much, if not more, but as an example of genius, and how it truly transcends genre, this Album puts anything else I can think of right up the shady end of the street.

Changed my mind now. Load of old crap.

[@jameskennedy721]

Easily one of his best albums . Of course all of them have great moments .

[@jm-rf7kl]

The break on this tune is the real deal.

[@haroldz2323]

The captain Beefheart was a pioneer alright!

[@davidwalker5054]

There are 2 types of people in the world. Those who (get) the captian and those who don't. There is no middle ground

[@yarg54]

The Captain and Frank have been picked up by the mother ship

[@Jack-vy6uo]

I knew him and FZ and one afternoon in LA we smoked cigarettes together. They were still friendly after all the nonsense had n passed.my only regret was no Camera to record the fact. 😢

[@DirkRevised]

Thank you for sharing this track! Yoyo-ed me straight back to that record shop ... (Sound level is perfect too.)

[@freddylubin]

It's unfair, and very limiting, to say that this is a lesser album, because it's more "accessible". It's different than "Trout Mask Replica", or "Safe as Milk", both of which I love, and listen to often. But this is great stuff as well, and the discipline of tighter and shorter songs is not necessarily a bad thing.

[@willynilly726]

Freddy Lubin You are right. The Magic Band was, without a doubt, one of the greatest bands of all time. The 3 albums you cite were just so fearless and innovative and different from each other. Trout Mask was incredible. Side 2, beginning with Pachuco Cadaver, made me a believer. Either you couldn't listen to it or you said "why aren't people listening to this?!???" Either you got Beefheart or you didn't. Thanks for posting Revantlation. I saw the Magic Band perform in Staten Island when Clear Spot was just released. "Peon" was performed. Truly a masterpiece.

[@freddylubin]

***** I saw them around the same time, at the Tower theater in Philadelphia (well, actually Upper Darby). I remember how most people didn't get it. Even many who listened to him thought it was a joke. I realized how serious he is about what he was doing, and the years have only made that more clear.

[@willynilly726]

Freddy Lubin Holy #$@@!! My ex was from Upper Darby! But, that makes sense. The greatest rock band in the world had to book venues outside of main metro areas because it couldn't draw big enough audiences. That's why they played in Staten Island and not in NYC. As it was, the old movie theater in Staten Island was only 3/4 filled. "Clear Spot" albums were raffle items. You and I saw the Magic Band at its best with Rockette Morton, Zoot Horn Rollo and Drumbo. Later personnel were great, but they were the core. You're right. The more you listened the more you understood. Most people thought they were out of control. It was just the opposite! Zoot Horn wrote that Charlie Mingus and Ornette Coleman attended a performance. That's how good the band was. Thanks!

[@freddylubin]

***** I've been out of Philly, and out of the US, for 42 years, but I know that the Tower is still there. One of the few old-style movie theaters around.

[@JeffVanSyckle1]

Freddy Lubin AGREED! This is a terrific Beefheart LP. If only most musicians could make their music accessible, interesting and creative at the same time. The juxtaposition of songs and the "wiggy" rhythms are incomparable! And, what a Blues Voice the Captain had.

[@MrZaqqa]

The drummer herein is Artie with the green mustache Tripp(here knowed as Ed Marimba) he formerly of Zappa's Mothers of Invention band. The lead guitar on the tune 'Alice In Blunderland' is another alumni from that great Zappa band called Winged Eel Fingerling(known to his mama as Elliot Ingber.) In them days, musicians frequently zig zagged between both the Mothers and Beefheart's ownne Magic Band. Tho Ian Robertson Underwood - amazingly enuff - could NOT cut it in the Beefheart group saying the musique gave gimme a headache.

[@robotnumber6]

the percussion is awesome ... do I hear some kind of marimba? ... Beefheart's guitarist did some awesome rhythms! Love it ... brings back lots of memories.

[@bogeybast]

This is a very strong album of more commercially viable songs. Trout Mask sets the bar for eclectic weirdness and anti-commercial brilliance. Clear Spot is much easier to love for a more mainstream audience.

[@timberwrightsvs480]

Very well put, Freddy Lubin. It shouldn't be mandatory to be seeing triple before spinning an album. Templeman was clearly steering Don van V a different direction with this album, but is trying to take an artist out of the dark fringes of obscurity such a bad thing? Some hard core Captain Beefheart fans might not like the decipherable lyrics, but I think some of this stuff really stands up. The Captain and his buddy, Frank Z, weren't accessible to me as a kid in the earliest days of FM -- because they didn't give either artist any air play -- but I would've loved to have heard "Clear Spot" before or after other Templeman-produced songs of the time -- i..e., "Listen to the Music" and "Rockin' Down the Highway." FM program directors are truly the bane of any music lover's existence.

[@bob733333]

All mainstream big media is satanic junk. Lies and bullshit.

[@Labor_Jones]

Late at night because I knew the Cable guys in Brownsville they said hook up the cable to your stereo receiver and you can get ‘FM’ stations from far away… far away San Antonio… late at night - Underground. I was hooked and the DJ said, “where” and I said, “far south” and sent me Beefheart and books to get ‘On the Road’ and poetry by ‘Blake’ and blew my mind with information before the digital age.

[@FeelingShred]

LOVED these late night radio shows, caught the tail end of that era... miss it 👍

[@FeelingShred]

I do miss it 👍

[@andragg]

Don Van Vliet is somewhat of an anomaly among musicians. What I understand is he has no real knowledge of music theory but yet he's an accomplished harmonica player. Listen to him playing chromatic harmonica along with the guitar lines on "Click Clack and "Grow Fins" from his album "The Spotlight Kid". He may not be educated in music or know how to play a soprano sax properly, but there's no denying his brilliance as a self taught musician. Some of the greatest musicians learned to play without formal training. I'm a musician/composer and studied music theory in college and I have hired musicians to play my music and some can't play without a score. Some musicians are the opposite of the approach Don Van Vliet took. I've always wondered if his music would not be as interesting if he was formally trained. From interviews with past Magic Band members, they imply that Van Vliet didn't write all the music as he claims, and I believe this is true. But his music would not exist if he wasn't there to lead his band, so it doesn't matter if he didn't write all the notes to "Hair Pie" for example. I certainly think John "Drumbo" French should be praised for his effort in the making of Trout Mask Replica, yet he isn't even credited on the album. Out of spite, I think Don Van Vliet left his name out because they got into a fight and French quit the band before the album cover was designed. Thanks for reading this long post. Cheers

[@wolfstan64]

Thanks for posting this- great stuff

[@gianniscossa3548]

Yo yo stuff

[@aakkoin]

I've been doing the low yo yo.. like any other feller!!!

[@philiphalpenny9761]

Segues effortlessly with Dr. John's Same Old, Same Old... Cast under the same voodoo spell.

[@ThaPhantazm]

Voodoo...or Hoodoo?

[@grahamwebster4524]

Captain or Frank?for me, Captain by a million miles.

[@williammedford6031]

Nobody does it better!

[@suginami123]

Saw this band in Stevenage uk. Simply beyond belief

[@sherriffofhongkong]

Artie Tripp aka Ed Marimba....Drums Percussion Marimba....different from Drumbo but just as unique.....Buy John "Drumbo" French's book Beefheart Through the Eyes of Magic. It's a GREAT look inside The Magic Band.....

[@punkpoetry]

Beautiful music

[@vectortemple]

The Stones could only dream about sounding like this. They tried, but it didn't work so good.... Beefheart is EL CAPITAN.

[@johnhenrick2298]

You're joking!

[@bob733333]

Stones are so average.

[@JerzySSJ]

thanks for uploading all that stuff

[@samandor1]

Haven’t seen this interpretation yet - it’s simply about a woman crossing the street, while wearing the western foot bondage known as “pumps”. Add higher heels and a designer name, and they can cost thousands - this song may even have been conceived while stopped at a red light on Rodeo Drive.

[@gcangur1]

The most beautiful irregularity

[@ExitosGnosis]

Thanks for posting this album and shiny beast!!! I have the vinyl repro and had given up right around March looking for a youtube of it. yay!!

[@petermaxwell2965]

You need to play these guys sometimes, ..just to clear the bullshit out of the air..

[@traffa2]

Definitely!!!! Doing it right now with all this Covid-19 shite going on....here in Australia.

[@irplane]

I hear Strictly Personal and everything changes. I now feel that every bluesrock singer I have heard have been making watered down soulless attempts at what Captain Beefheart just did naturally.

[@jordantaggart6372]

And the captain very may have been trying to sound like his own version of the great howlin' wolf. 🐺 Just saying

[@irplane]

@@jordantaggart6372 Nah, wolf was an influence for sure but the Captain sounded very Original from his first album on. Cant really see Wolf singing Autumns Child, Yellow, Brick Road, or I'm So Glad.

[@philiphalpenny9761]

Drumming here is reminicent of the late great Richie Hayward.

[@waterfordrs22]

Philip - very syncopated not unlike Little Feat at all particularly their first album. Not surprising if you figure Lowell George also came from The Mothers of Invention as well.

[@philiphalpenny9761]

@@waterfordrs22 Dr. John just passed. This track is like he, Lowell & Beefheart just discovered that they are blood relatives. That hoodoo, voodoo stuff is contagious...

[@waterfordrs22]

Philip, very reasonable comparison.

[@PxTsik]

my man capn talking about women moving their pretty little feet -- warms my heart

[@PhilipReed-qo8ll]

The captain fucking rocked!

[@musicain5]

Trippyyyy

[@terenceboris851]

this is my Shit!

[@tantnonkl848]

Miss u. rip vliet

[@tomtom4730]

i love how people say this is commercial, these songs are so strange

[@paulminihan5653]

OH YES. IF SHE EVER FINDS OUT.

[@Aviv52]

I agree that it is a great album -- not sure if it surpasses Safe as Milk, Trout Mask Replica or Lick My Decals Off in the Beefheart canon.

[@franklinrwful]

The best white blues band ever?

[@michaelmorphites6733]

Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac.

[@thomasmagee9576]

michael morphites +Oh,hell naw!CANNED HEAT!

[@sharonbodea7677]

@@michaelmorphites6733 So average band.

[@michaelmorphites6733]

@@sharonbodea7677 Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac (1967-70), not the later shit that you’re probably thinking of. Do yourself a favour and learn up!

[@shayshaggyshay]

grow fins n get lost n found

[@cttxlv]

Good on ya, perfect karma and inspiration!

[@hanawana]

yay yay yay yay yay yay

[@allenpratt797]

The moon was a drip on a dark hood....

[@freddylubin]

Everyone's doin' it, Deep down everybody knows they should" Sho' nuff!!!

[@brucehaines803]

Okay John vanderbeek I can't do the low Yo-Yo Yo-Yo

[@bruce369able]

agreed!

[@crunchtv4231]

yes yes yes.

[@aakkoin]

Yo yo yo

[@ElimGarakSpoonHead]

Does it still count if I low yo-yo myself?

[@russmilenbach3502]

Sold Zoot Horn a lb of weed once....ha ha

[@panjei9397]

who is fucking one disliker

[@Lumby1]

Cat walked over the keyboard, or the dude had a stroke!

[@mzSmith]

captain was West Ham. hasta,. ,. yo yo..

[@garythomas2653]

Great great music, is this song about masturbation or do I have a sick mind?

[@garylucas5558]

That’s right The Mascara Snake

[@waylonjenninz]

Lady Gaga should cover this.

[@paulamcfernandez]

I agree with yo yo yo

[@majestyk3337]

Lady who?

[@Liddledriver]

Somebody should cover Gaga up, maybe with a big side of beef. On second thought someone should slap her upside her head.

[@glenmunro3]

pigs fucking arese it will we don't want that mole anywhere near our good music thanks.

[@gianniscossa3548]

Lady yo yo yoooh ?

[@MrTimRankin]

Ted Templeman brought me here.

[@FeelingShred]

WTF did he say now 🤣

[@FeelingShred]

what was the context

[@MrTimRankin]

Some vector between Van Halen and Frank Zappa, two separate feeds separated by decades, but check out "The Templeton Twins" for a full dose of this Templeman guy@@FeelingShred 🐉

[@MrTimRankin]

@@FeelingShred Some vector between Van Halen and Frank Zappa, but check out “The Templeton Twins” for a full dose of this Templeman guy

[@FeelingShred]

🙏awesome

[@identityfor]

reminds me of devo